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In this guide, we will discuss Erlang spawn on Node. This is used to create a new process on a node.

Syntax

spawn(Node,Function)

Parameters

• Node − The node on which the function needs to be spawned.
• Function − The function which needs to be spawned.

Return Value

This method returns a process id.

For example

-module(helloworld). 
-export([start/0]). 

start() ->
   spawn(node(),fun() -> server("Hello") end). 

server(Message) -> 
   io:fwrite("~p",[Message]).

Output

When we run the above program, we will get the following result.

“Hello”

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